Table 2 The search method applied in this review
From: Handling healthcare workforce planning with care: where do we stand?
Step | Search method |
|---|---|
1 | Identify common search terms from reviews, books and technical papers |
2 | Generate plausible combinations of terms to be used for search using the key search terms identified |
4 | Search for these terms on PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, ProQuest, Healthstar, ABI/Inform, INSPEC, Google Scholar and Scopus |
5 | Select a base set for the results consisting of the 20 papers (10 most cited, 5 most recent and 5 randomly chosen) |
6 | Match the abstract and perform a forward and backward search to verify the relevance of the paper for the selected base set |
7 | Exclude papers that address none of the topics covered, that only make a brief reference to the subject at hand or that are not written in English |